It is well known that the priceless honey bee is facing a crisis world-wide.
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It is well known that the priceless honey bee is facing a crisis world-wide. Whole colonies collapse in tragic numbers, pests and diseases grip the hives and pesticides are named as the number one contributor to the weakening of the bee immune system and general health. This is all true. But there is another major factor contributing to the decline of the honey bee and sadly that is modern beekeeping.
Over the last couple of hundred years, beekeeping has devolved into a producer-consumer relationship with industrial beekeepers essentially becoming factory farmers. The methods employed to maximise honey production come at the expense of the bees ability to express themselves and the hive in the way that is natural and beneficial to them and this is weakening them.
What I have discovered in my own experience with 'keeping' bees is that the most important thing is to stop relating to them as 'non-sentient producers' working for us but instead see them for what they are: wise, intelligent beings with their own destiny to fulfil. In essence, to respect them once again.
Next, we can learn how to listen to them, both by observation and direct communication. Then we can begin to understand what they want and need and provide that for them. I call this Bee-led beekeeping and it is about allowing the bees to show us the way into a co-creative, mutually beneficial relationship for the good of us all.
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